‘The Royal Road’

This film offers up intimate reflections on nostalgia, the pursuit of unavailable women, butch identity, and Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, alongside a primer on Junipero Serra’s Spanish colo-nization of California and the Mexican-American War. The film premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and has won critical attention and awards at festivals throughout the world. Written and directed by Jenni Olson, with a voice-over cameo by Tony Kushner. Wolfe Video (wolfevideo.com). —Suzie Lynde